Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 116
She did as she was told, and the chief went into the back-yard and bathed and dressed the wound.
Who acts: OBIM, chief · What happens: do, tell, go, bath, dress · To what, where: OBIM, wound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (OBIM, chief), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | aux:pass |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 yard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 yard | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 yard | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 back | punct |
| 16 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bathed | cc |
| 18 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dressed | cc |
| 20 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bathed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wound | det |
| 22 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dressed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | OBIM | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | OBIM | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the chief | into the back yard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into yard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bath | past | the chief not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dress | past | the chief not said here | the wound | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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